Growing vines in after effects

[Toby Heslop]

Ok i finally found the tutorial on the cow. i knew i had seen it before!

is there an easier way to do it though if i have a vector file

thanks

[Rjf E:613]

Dave,

You mentioned “Andrew’s” technique. Do you mean Andrew Kramer? The only one I know about is Jayse Hansen:

https://www.creativecow.net/show.php?page=/articles/hansen_jaysen/growing/index.html

Is there another one I’m missing?

[Todd Morgan]

I did a project of a growing tree with branches and leaves before Xmas. After looking at a few variations of how to do it I jumped in and started from scratch by creating a mask of the tree as a sapling, then animated it growing by moving vertices and adding more as it grows creating the branches, and so on. It didn’t take me as long as I thought it would and would have saved myself time just doing it and not looking online for a quick way to do it. If you know how it needs to look in the end, then you should just create an animated mask that grows to what you want to see. Can you send me the image of the vines?

Todd Morgan
morgancreative

[Majorasshole]

Every one you’ve ever seen is done by hand probably similar to the tutorial.

[Ken]

Have you checked out Ayato’s site? He does something with a Japanese character that mimicks the calligraphy brush strokes using illustrator and AE’s gradient wipe tool. Not sure if this will help you at all, but it is a different way of doing things.

https://www.ayatoweb.com/ae_tips_e/ae17_e.html

[Anim8@creativecow.net]

I’ve checked out Ayato’s demo – I’ve figured using the blend tool in Illustrator to create the characters, but I don’t understand how to translate this information to After Effects. Do you copy the vector information from Illustrator and paste it on a layer in After Effects and then proceed?

I’ve been reading Creative Cow for some time now, but this is my first post! Hello!

Iain